I'm only just getting started on those, so from your reaction, I guess I can look forward to the Alice stories!
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Psst, it's Velveteen vs.
Yes, of course! I blame my children's required cards for tomorrow.
Toby I loved, then was meh, and am recently back to love. I thought Sparrow Hill Road was nice but not memorable. The Mira Grant stuff has all been enjoyable - in some ways I liked the Parasite series more than the Newsflesh series, but I think Newsflesh was actually better by most measures. I just like parasites more than zombies.
Somehow Amazon didn't tell me about Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day, so thanks! Only 2.99 on Kindle right this moment, so that's cool. And Every Heart a Doorway is available in eBook form AND audiobook form through my library right now! Though I'm currently on a Star Wars audiobook kick, so I'll probably stick with the eBook for that one. Yay libraries!
I like the InCryptid a lot. Wasn't as big a fan of the brother but loooooved the "so you think you can dance" takeoff in the last book.
This. The InCryptid books were my first McGuires, and somehow I didn't warm to the Toby Daye series so much when I tried it. Just such a different tone.
I really didn't love the first couple of Toby stories — her writing gets much better as the series goes on (which benefited the InCryptid series). Now I can't get enough of them.
Toby's world benefits a LOT from the characters she gains over time. Now it's full-on fairy Buffy, with a whole Scooby Gang of greatness.
Last night I finished reading Winter's Bone and have gone in search for info on the religious aspect. I'm curious if the Dolly clan's origins as a cult are based on anything real. I have found myself on quite the tangent though. I found a Missouri Readers group and have been reading their reactions to all of the Gillian Flynn books.
Two things:
1. I did not know that Kindred has been adapted as a graphic novel.
2. Check out this side table designed for reading.
Phillip Pullman is going to have a companion series to the His Dark Materials series: [link]
That sounds interesting.
never have I been so happy not to have a book coming out mid-October.